Jane Hamilton

The Aria -- Our desire to comply is entangled with our need to resist.

Aria -- Introspective journey of a nameless character, overwhelmed by sin that turns into a personal redemption, a self-inflicted punishment that allows him to take away from this reality his sins to rid the world and take them in the air.

Fun's in fashion when Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (plus Irene Dunne and Randolph Scott) enter the ultrachic Parisian world of high fashion in Roberta. The third Astaire/Rogers film, a silky screen adaptation of the 1933 Broadway hit, has all that fans had some to expect from the pair's movies: a jaunty romantic plot, fabulous sets, memorable music and above all, incomparable dance magic to match the score. "The most pleasant moments in Roberts," Time reported, "arrive when Astaire and Rogers turn the story upside down and dance on it." Astaire may sing I Won't Dance. But his feet betray him.

Lyubov Ranevskaya's family is riddled with debt and is forced to sell their land to Lopakhin, a crude businessman who intends to build a housing development in what was once the family's cherry orchard.